National Tempus / Erasmus+
Office in Ukraine

1. Name of your university / institution/industry or company interested in participating in TEMPUS project:

KHARKIV NATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

2. Main field of activities of your institution:

Kharkiv National Medical University provides education services connected to obtaining higher education at the level of qualification requirements for a junior specialist, bachelor, specialist, master with a specialization in:

For specialists: “General Medicine”, “Paediatrics”, “Public Health and Preventive Medicine”, “Dentistry”.

For Master’s students: “Nursing”.

For Bachelor’s students: “Nursing”, “Laboratory Diagnosis”.

For junior specialists: “Nursing”, “Midwifery” and “General Medicine”.

Postgraduate education is provided in postgraduate course in 35 specialities and in clinical residency in 25 specialities.

Institutes and Faculties

The University comprises 7 faculties, Educational Research Institute for Postgraduate Training at Kharkiv National Medical University, Medical College, Centre for Gender Education of KhNMU (CGE); 2 research institutes: Research Institute of Occupational Hygiene and Occupational Diseases, Ukrainian Institute of Clinical Genetics; Central research laboratory, 5 problem laboratories, Medical training and research unit of Kharkiv National Medical University “University Dental Centre”, Scientific-Practical Medical Centre of KhNMU. At the University, the Committee on Ethics and Bioethics has been functioning since 2001.

KhNMU has been a member of the International Association of Universities (under the aegis of UNESCO) since 1998; it is added to the register of medical universities of the World Health Organization (Avicenna Directories).

3. Information about the intended TEMPUS project:

The title of the project proposal is “Gender Education and Medicine” (GEM)

4. Project proposal/description:

Project goals and objectives:

- implementation of the latest achievements in medicine to gender education methodology;

- methodological interdisciplinary substantiation of medical aspects of gender equality in education;

- elaboration of teaching and learning manuals in medical aspects of gender equality in education;

- elaboration of special courses in medical aspects of gender equality in education, and teaching them to medical and pedagogical students;

- chief administrators’ training;

- training for lecturers of pedagogical and medical higher education institutions;

- conducting international conferences on medical aspects of gender equality in education;

- cross-disciplinary probations for teachers and students of the Consortium partner institutions of higher education.

Deliverables:

Acquisition of skills for implementation of the medical attainments to achieve gender equality in education.

Suggestions to the Ministry of Education and Science, Youth and Sports of Ukraine on medical aspects of gender equality in education (cross-disciplinary reflection of medical aspects of gender equality in education).

Publishing and distribution of teaching and learning manuals on medical aspects of gender equality in education.

5. Previous international experience:

International conference “Gender. Ecology. Health” initiated and held by Kharkiv National Medical University in October, 2007 and 2008, in April, 2011.

Gender and Democracy: Gender research in times of change. – Gender and Education Association Interim Conference. April 11-13, 2012. – Goteborg, Sweden.

CEU (Budapest, Hungary) Session “Biology. Behavior. Reproduction”, October 25-31, 2010.

Report “Women’s critique of globalization: Ukrainian perspectives” LOVA International Conference “Ethnographies of Gender and Globalization, July 3-4, 2008, Amsterdam, Holland.

Report “Women’s rights in Ukraine” at international meeting “Women’s rights in Europe and Mediterranean”, June 5-7, 2003, Foggia, Italy.

IREX (CI) Cross-cultural analysis of ecofeminism, University of Wisconsin (USA), Madison. February-June, 2002.

Cambridge University, Jesus College, Psychoanalysis and Ecofeminism. June, 23 – July 23, 2001 (Great Britain).

Ind. Research Project RSS 2000/569 ‘Ecofeminist Perspectives in Ukraine”.

Ohrid Summer University (Republic of Macedonia, Skopje), International Summer School ‘The Face of the Other’, July 1-21, 2000, certificate of the course ‘Face and violence: The Boundaries of the Human”.

Central European University (Budapest), Summer University, July 1999, certificate of the course “The New Private Spheres”.

Project Parity Training workshop, (Yalta, Ukraine) June, 1999, certificate of the course “Mainstreaming Gender on the Political Agenda” (Tacis, Know How Fund (UK), UNDP Gender in Development Unit).

Please contact: Professor Igor Zavgorodnii, Doctor of Medical Science, Full Professor, Head of the Department of Hygiene and Ecology No. 2

Tel.:+38 (057) 707-73-81, e-mail: zavnik@rambler.ru

Professor Kateryna Karpenko, Doctor of Philosophical Science, Full Professor, Director of the Centre for Gender Education of KhNMU

Tel.: +38 (067) 951-35-49, e-mail: gez.2007@mail.ru